Hollywood set to pull the plug on The Pirate Bay

Studios team up to get closure injunction

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Hollywood looks like it is close to scalping one of its biggest piracy threats in recent years – The Pirate Bay.

The MPA, which consists of Disney, Paramount, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal and Warner, has managed to obtain a preliminary injunction against ISP CB3ROB, which hosts the data for The Pirate Bay.

If the injunction is successful, then Hollywood have essentially cut the Pirate Bay off from its source.

The Pirate Bay's host, CB3ROB, is based in a place called CyberBunker in Germany – which is a Cold War era government command bunker – and this is where the injunction has been sanctioned.

The writ means that CB3ROB is no longer allowed to connect The Pirate Bay's servers to the web.

Copyright fines

If CB3ROB don't comply, it may well face hefty fines. This is because the MPA has managed to get the courts to say that it is liable for copyright infringement, for hosting links to torrents for the following movies: The Bounty Hunter, Alice in Wonderland, Our Family Wedding, Green Zone, Repo Men and Cop Out.

Torrent Freak, who initially reported on the MPA's plans, has contacted CB3ROB who explained: "We have no information about this. No letters have reached us or our attorneys."

All this in the same week that LimeWire is fined for hosting copyrighted content. It seems that web pirates are currently finding themselves all at sea.